Legal Opinion

Diener v. Schley

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1856PublishedCited by 8 opinions

The bill was filed originally against Frederick-Diener, jr.; sole defendant, to procure tbe release from bim of certain claims of title set up by tbe latter, to certain lands in tbe bill described.

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The bill was filed originally against Frederick-Diener, jr.; sole defendant, to procure tbe release from bim of certain claims of title set up by tbe latter, to certain lands in tbe bill described. Tbe bill is concise, and cannot well be abbreviated, and is as follows : “ Your orator, Frederick Diener, whose place of abode is in tbe town of Spring Prairie, in tbe county of Walworth, complaining, shows, that on the 13th day of October, A. D. 1851, he purchased of one John Martin, and Philomela, his wife, in con' sideration of $3,000, all those certain pieces or parcels of land situated in the…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Whitoet, O. J.

The bill in this case was ined for the purpose of compelling Frederick Diener, jr., one of the defendants, to execute a release to the complainant of certain lands described in the bill.

The bill charges that the complainant purchased a quantity of land of one John Martin, and took a conveyance of the same to himself and his son Carl Diener jointly; that his other son, Frederick Diener, jr., sets up a claim to one-half of the land, *525claiming to be one of tbe grantees named in tbe conveyance of tbe land from Martin. Tbe bill prays that -Frederick, jr., may be decreed…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. State v. PowersSupreme Court of Iowa · 1917
  2. Stroud v. PechacekCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1938
  3. Schintz v. McManamyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
  4. Begg v. BeggWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
  5. Menasha Wooden Ware Co. v. HarmonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1906

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